Independently re-verified. The Continental Divide Trail Coalition's 'Completion Act Reintroduced' page confirms Rep. Joe Neguse (CO) reintroduced the Continental Divide Trail Completion Act bicamerally on April 17, 2025, alongside Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez; a separate CDT Coalition legislative-update page explicitly names him 'sponsor Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-2)' of H.R. 5118 and describes it being heard before the House Natural Resources Committee (Jan. 2022). The CDT Coalition advocacy page confirms the substantive goal — closing roughly 160 miles of trail still routed on highways — and notes continuing Senate cosponsor momentum (March 2026 post). Neguse is thus the named lead House sponsor who introduced and repeatedly reintroduced the bill across multiple Congresses and drove it through committee, which is far beyond a single supporting vote and squarely meets the CHAMPIONED definition (actively led/sponsored/drove the effort). It is not FULL because the standalone bill has not been enacted into law. The label is fair under a party-neutral standard: any member who is the named lead sponsor, reintroduces a bill repeatedly, and advances it through committee would earn CHAMPIONED. Note: the prior rating's specific corroborating claims of FY23 NDAA passage and a December 2025 Senate-committee bipartisan vote could not be independently re-verified because Congress.gov and GovTrack returned HTTP 403 during this check; however, those details are not load-bearing, and the confirmed sponsorship/leadership evidence fully supports CHAMPIONED. Confidence held at 0.85.